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Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by lizzie

Well, yeah, I do, but I also find out-of-control animalistic behavior reprehensible too.

These are two entirely separate issues. Immoral actions of one group of individuals does not in any way justify the immoral actions of another. Mass punishment is the tool of totalitarian governments (and the military).

Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by TNAR

You apparently have no clue how the U.S. justice system works. As the saying goes, the U.S. has the best justice system money can buy. Do you suppose they say this because it is "fair" to the "poorest people" as you put it? Of course not.

Detroit is one of the poorest and most violence cities in America. Yet, they have two of the most cost-effective private "police" forces in the nation. Threat Management Center and Detroit 300.

It would be even worse if we had private police forces. We know this because we had it in the past. At least now the police are not paid by those who they may be investigating, not directly anyway. How can you objectively investigate a crime if a suspect is someone who directly pays you. You depend on that person specifically to provide your business, your police force revenue, so how can you objectively look into a case where that person may have to go to jail?

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Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by TNAR

Am I the only one who finds the practice of enforcing curfews despotic and reprehensible?

Why do you think they changed teh curfew status? Too much blowback across the country. Had to resort to "You can protest but you have to always keep moving". Then proceeded to pin people in with police lines and apprehend them for "failure to disperse". This whole event seems to have been a testing of American rights and what responses and measures would be tolerated.

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Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by roguenuke

How can you objectively investigate a crime if a suspect is someone who directly pays you. You depend on that person specifically to provide your business, your police force revenue, so how can you objectively look into a case where that person may have to go to jail?

This is where competition comes into play. Unlike government corruption, when a business appears to have biases their bottom line is hurt and will potentially go out of business.

Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by TNAR

These are two entirely separate issues. Immoral actions of one group of individuals does not in any way justify the immoral actions of another. Mass punishment is the tool of totalitarian governments (and the military).

No, they really aren't separate. One is the cause of the other.

"God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse."-C G Jung

Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by dirtpoorchris

Why do you think they changed teh curfew status? Too much blowback across the country. Had to resort to "You can protest but you have to always keep moving". Then proceeded to pin people in with police lines and apprehend them for "failure to disperse". This whole event seems to have been a testing of American rights and what responses and measures would be tolerated.

I've said earlier that, regardless of what happened with the guy who got shot, the response has looked like martial law training.

Re: Officer "Go **** Yourself" Threatens to kill journalist

Originally Posted by lizzie

No, they really aren't separate. One is the cause of the other.

The question of excessive use of force by Police is a nationwide (and even worldwide) issue and has resulted in a wide array of reactions. Simply because some people reacted with violence in no way justifies the curtailment of liberties across diverse groups of individuals.